House Republicans lash Mnuchin, Mulvaney behind closed doors

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




GOP lawmakers booed the Trump administration officials for their debt ceiling stance.

By RACHAEL BADE and KYLE CHENEY 09/08/2017 11:54 AM EDT

It was supposed to be a call to unity.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney joined a closed-door GOP conference meeting Friday to try to rally wary Republicans around a debt ceiling bill they hated. But the huddle quickly went off the rails when Rep. Tim Walberg stood up to say President Donald Trump needed to play more with the team. The Michigan Republican said he was all for bipartisanship. But he argued that Trump shouldn’t have blindsided the conference the way he did when he struck a deal with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, undercutting GOP leaders.

Walberg was the first of more than a dozen lawmakers who echoed that same sentiment, according to sources in the room. Republican Study Committee Chairman Mark Walker of North Carolina asked Mnuchin why he even bothered meeting with conservatives over the summer if he was just going to ignore their input entirely. Another lawmaker said Trump “pissed off a whole lot of people in here” when he went against a joint leadership-White House plan to advocate for a longer debt limit increase that took the issue off the table until after the mid-term elections. And the room booed when Mulvaney and Mnuchin refused to commit to spending cuts during the next debt ceiling debate — and then asked for their vote on the current legislation.

“Mnuchin’s last words, and I quote, were ‘Vote for the debt ceiling for me,’” Walker said as he left the meeting. “You could hear the murmurs in the room there. There was some hissing and I don’t know if there was booing but there were some groans.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/08/house-republicans-ciriticize-steven-mnuchin-mick-mulvaney-242490

[BeyondGeography]

1. Trump as team player?

He thinks you guys are losers, Timmie. You could always save some time and impeach him.

[OnDoutside]

2. Booing ??? It's not a circus ! On second thoughts, they were addressing 2 clowns.

[Angry Dragon]

3. One wonders which team will win

lost in the GAME are the fans(citizens)
it is all about them and nothing about us

[awesomerwb1]

5. Sad isn't it?

They do remember their constituents come election time though. /sarcasm

[Angry Dragon]

7. It is ............ I need your vote and send money

I need money so I can defeat the evil

[PatSeg]

4. Poor republican lawmakers

Someone should have told them a long time ago, Trump is NOT a republican. He is a Trumpican or Trumpocrat. It is all about him and always has been.

[Kleveland]

6. A true 3 Ring Circus, full of Killer Klowns from outer space.

In ring #1 - The Senate

In ring #2 - The House of Mis-representatives

In ring #3 - The Executive Branch

[Angry Dragon]

8. Good One

[Renew Deal]

9. The entire debt ceiling thing is a farce

And it should be eliminated

[underpants]

10. Tim Waaaaahberg

[not fooled]

11. Huh

I thought mulvaney was a confirmed crackpot koch tool in it to be a hardliner. maybe he got marching orders from charlie and dave to tone it down and not take the country over the cliff.